**headdesk.**
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ladybug_archivePlease explain to me why it is not even considered that someone could be singing a song of French origin in German. This honestly boggles my mind.
Even more discouraging is that originally I'd had a notation that Autor was singing in German, but I removed it because I thought everyone would just assume he was and that it would look silly to have such a notation.
Never overestimate.
It's so ironic that hearing a German version of that French carol is what inspired the fic in the first place.
That's kind of amusing, actually. But oy vey. Next time maybe I'll be smart and keep the supposedly unnecessary and silly notations.
Even more discouraging is that originally I'd had a notation that Autor was singing in German, but I removed it because I thought everyone would just assume he was and that it would look silly to have such a notation.
Never overestimate.
It's so ironic that hearing a German version of that French carol is what inspired the fic in the first place.
That's kind of amusing, actually. But oy vey. Next time maybe I'll be smart and keep the supposedly unnecessary and silly notations.
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Date: 2010-12-22 07:08 pm (UTC)'Stille Nacht' is indeed German, which is why a few of the lines in English are a tad awkward. And I have no idea which came first, 'Adeste Fideles' or 'O Come, All Ye Faithful.' They're hymns, and Christmas songs, they're supposed to be translated and spread around.
Oy vey, indeed....
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Date: 2010-12-22 07:15 pm (UTC)Yes! Translated and spread around is a good way to put it.
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Date: 2010-12-23 07:08 pm (UTC)Yes, I had a bit of the staring- at- screen reaction. I'm not particularly put off by the 'stereotyping' though-- gotta remember that it wasn't so long ago that a national identity was expected, and even in parts of America it was unusual to marry outside of one's ancestors' nationality. I suspect that only long since WWII has the concept been seen as a sort of prejudice in a bad way, since that's really when transportation and travel got a boost, along with contact with other nationalities. And really, we can still talk with a straight face about hot- tempered and artistic Irish, dour and thrifty Scots, argumentative and musical Welsh, rational English... and few people bat an eyelid.
Anyway, before I start sounding like the reviewer I need to get some work done and acquire some not- freezing- in- snow sleeeep.
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Date: 2010-12-23 07:24 pm (UTC)**nods.** That's true. Maybe it's in the presentation. Seriously acting like a certain nationality is just like that *down to the last man, woman, and child* is what makes my jaw drop. I don't know that she was really saying/believing that, but that was impression I got.
LOL. Sleep is a wonderful thing.